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Photo: Kramer

My Rottweiler 'Kramer'
Dealing with Auto-Immune Thrombocytopenia

Submitted by Melissa Frankel on January 19, 2006

My sweet girl Kramer was a "free" puppy from a breeder. She came to me very sick and got healthy after a surgery that literally saved her life. I think she knew that I saved her and in turn she gave me all of her love and devotion, that was until I had a baby and then she switched from loving me to loving him, which couldn't have made me any happier.

Just one month shy of her 6th birthday, I noticed she had blood in her urine. The vet came right over and gave her medicine thinking it was just a severe bladder infection. As the day went on, the bleeding got worse. By the next morning (the dogs slept outside that night), it looked as if someone had been killed on my patio by the amount of blood. The vet came back, rushed her to the Emergency Clinic, where she was diagnosed with Auto-Immune Thrombocytopenia, a terrible disease that causes platelets to drop dramatically in number, hemorrhaging and the body not able to clot its own blood. The odds were 50-50. She was in the hospital treated with antibiotics, steroids, human hormones and even blood transfusions.

After four days of treatment, the doctors said she was improving enough and her platelet count was getting high enough that he would be releasing her the next day. Later that night, I got a call that she was in cardiac arrest and I needed to get there right away to say goodbye to my sweet girl. She wasn't able to hold on long enough for me to get there, but she knew how much she was loved and how much she is missed.

It has been sometime since Kramer has passed, and we are just getting ready to bring home a new Rottie girl at the end of February. There will never be another one as special to me as she was, but there will also never be another breed for me either thanks to my Kramer.

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